Miller posts first career double-double as Men's Basketball storms back from 20-point deficit in final 3:30 to down Heidelberg 86-82 in overtime

• Records: Ohio Northern (7-6 Overall, 2-2 OAC), Heidelberg (7-6 Overall, 1-3 OAC).
• Venue: ONU Sports Center — Ada, Ohio.

The Game

• Senior Will Miller (Ottoville) led the Polar Bears with his first career double-double, posting a season-high 27 points and a career-high 11 boards. 
• Sophomore Aiden Harris (Pandora Gilboa) added 15 points and grabbed 8 boards
• Senior Mason Studer (Colonel Crawford/Gallion) added 10 points and grabbed 7 boards
• Junior Noah Langford (Perrysburg/Toledo Central Catholic) pitched in 8 points.
• Trey Killen led the Student Princes with 23 points.
• Northern trailed 67-47 with 3:38 to go in the game and outscored HU 25-5 in the final 3:38 to tie the game at 72-all and send it into overtime.
• The deficit was 69-51 when Harris scored an and-1 with 2:36 left to spark a 21-3 run.
• Miller scored 16 of his points in the final 3:02, including an and-1 with 4 seconds left to tie the game at 72.
• Miller nailed a 3-pointer with 2:15 left in over time to put the Polar Bears on top 82-76.
• Heidelberg would tie the game at 82-all with 42 seconds left, but Miller would score with 15 seconds to go to make it 84-82.
• After a pair of Student Princes free throw misses, Studer put the game away with a pair of free throws with five seconds to go.
• Heidelberg had a chance to win it at the buzzer but Killen's runner was after the buzzer, which sent the game to overtime
• Heidelberg led 41-24 at the half. 
• Ohio Northern was 32-of-81 from the floor for 39.5 percent and made 10-of-37 three-pointers for 27.0 percent, while Heidelberg finished 27-of-60 from the field for 45.0 percent and 5-of-16 from three-point range for 31.3 percent. 
• ONU made 12-of-18 free throws for 66.7 percent and HU was 23-of-27 from the foul line for 85.2 percent.
• The Polar Bears outrebounded the Student Princes 43-42.

Notables

• ONU now leads the all-time series with Heidelberg 110-72. 
• Miller now ranks 36th all-time in ONU with 1,077 points in 89 career games. 
• Miller is now 11th in ONU history with 148 steals.
• Ohio Northern continues off its 115th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1388-1090, a winning percentage of .560.
• Head coach Jon Tropf is in his first season at Ohio Northern with a 7-6 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action when they host Muskingum on Saturday afternoon at 1 pm on January 10th.